Category: Systems Engineering

Painting a Picture of Your System

Designing a system solution is a creative act in the fullest sense of the word. Among the most common definitions of creativity there are two recurring elements. Creativity is most often described as the act of producing something that is both novel and valuable. This certainly describes the systems engineering …

MBSE and SysML: Twins or Just Friends?

MBSE and SysML have spent some time growing up together – and even gotten popular together, and now they’re finding that many are confusing them as twins, or even two names for the same concept. Although both can complement each other and many organizations find systems engineering success using SysML …

Management of INTERFACES and LINKS

Outside of teaching and planned consulting, one of the things I get to do at Vitech is answer the methodology questions that come in each day from our customers. One of the more common questions we’ve been fielding lately is “How does interface development work in CORE 9?” CORE 9 …

A Revolution All Dressed Up for Dinner

At its recent International Symposium the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) released its Systems Engineering Vision 2025 report titled aptly “A World In Motion.” This document is a bold and forward-thinking vision of an exciting future. On the surface it appears innocuous enough. However, it is only on close …